Økern, located on the border between central Oslo and the citys postwar expansion areas of Groruddalen, its urban tissue is typically fragmented into disjoined monofunctional areas. These ruptures are the result of a mixture of monoprogramming of enclaves served by a largescale, regional infrastructure. Økern has become a large infrastructural hub, rather than a place. . The hub is unable to generate a place, only serving as a transitional space. Everybody knows it from passing through
When the regional road infrastructure is laid underground new possibilities arrise. The challenge now is to investigate an interesting transformation of the areas existing suburban logic.